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FBI denies Posse investigation
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo—The Posee Comitatus has been singled out by the FBI and federal prosecutors for a nationwide crackdown, a newspaper reported yesterday, but the FBI denied knowledge of any such investigation.
An FBI spokesman in Washington said the bureau has an individual chapter of the Posese under investigation, but said the bureau had no knowledge of a nationwide investigation reported by the Kansas City Times.
IN A COPYRIGHTED story yesterday, the Times quoted unnamed sources as saying the federal government was about to launch a major investigation into the right-wing or extremist leaders and paramilitary survivalists.
According to the newspaper the legal framework for the crackdown was laid quietly during the four months that Gordon Kahl remained a fugitive. Kahl was killed in a shoot-out last week near Smithville, Ark.
Kahl, his son, Yorie, and an associate were accused of killing two federal marshals attempting to arrest Kahl in North Dakota.
"You take these things in stages." a
government source told the newspaper.
"Now we can get to some of the things
The newspaper said that "well-placed federal law enforcement sources who refused to be identified" acknowledged that the group has, in effect, been singled out by the FBI and federal prosecutors.
FEDERAL AUTHORITIES asked the Justice Department to designate the Posse Comitatus a domestic terrorist group — a request that was granted, the newspaper said. That designation clears the way for wide-ranging investigations of the group's activities.
Prior to positive identification of Gordon Kahl's body late Monday, federal officers had publicly maintained that Kahl was sought only as a fugitive and refused to acknowledge official investigation of the larger group.
Action against the larger group is now imminent, sources told the news.
A string of eight to 10 Poseus Comitatus encampments in northern Arkansas are under close federal scrutiny as well as areas of central Missouri that have membership may number as high as 2,000 in 13 counties, the Times said.
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U. S. Marshal Charles Gray in Little Rock yesterday said he could not comment on the reported nationwide investigation of Posse Combatus.
"We'RE VERY AWARE that there are groups in the state," he said, declining to be specific on the names of the group. "We're aware of all of it."
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Reagan praises African leader
WASHINGTON — President Reagan welcomed President Felix Houphouën-Boigny of the Ivory Coast yesterday, praising the moderate African leader for his emphasis on a free economy and for being a spokesman for reason and open communication in resolving conflicts.
By United Press International
communication as the means for resolving conflict and ensuring a better world," Reagan said. "We share with you the Household this belief in dialogue."
Under gray skies, Reagan greeted Houpouet as one of the world's senior statesmen, a man of outstanding stature and the father of his country.
"IN THE AFRICAN continent and throughout the world, he is known as the spokesman for reason and open
Speaking through a French interpreter, Houphouit told Resonat in their first meeting that he looked forward to being able to discuss with the president the problems that concern Houphouit which he cannot conceive of being resolved without effective and forceful stems by the United States of America.
"That is why I am so keenly interested in your views with regard to the various areas where the fate of our lives is played out," the African leader said.
ADMINISTRATION officials said the Ivory Coast looks to the Reagan administration to pose a real block to further Soviet expansion in Africa, either directly or through its surrogates, Libya and Cuba.
Houphout also seeks better pricing arrangements on exports of cocoa and other products.
Reagan told Houpinet that U.S. officials and congressional leaders have given the Ivory Coast high marks on advances his country has made. Those advances reflect his commitment to a free economy and encourages producers through a philosophy of hard work and self-help. Reagan said,
House panel votes to end covert aid
WASHINGTON — The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved, 20-14, Tuesday a Democratic-backed bill that would force the administration to halt U.S. support for anti-Nicaraguan rebels.
The bill, previously approved by the House Intelligence Committee, was sent to the full house where administration officials modify the absolute cutoff of covert aid
THE VOTE TO report the bill favorably was on almost a straight party line, with just one Republican voting for it.
The Nicaraguan insurgents "are actively seeking to trigger a civil war in which thousands would die," said Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass.
The Democrats rejected President Reagan's arguments that aid to the Nicaraguan rebels is intended only to protect the country from leftoft guerrillas in El Salvador.
IN A KEY vote Monday, the committee rejected, 21-12, a Republican amendment that would have halted the recover aid to the rebels only when Nicaragua agreed to stop助留listt
guerrillas in neighboring countries.
Rep. Dan Mica, D-Fla., voted with his fellow Democrats but indicated that he would try to reach a compromise acceptable to both sides when the bill comes up on the House floor. Negotiators have said the Democrats and administration officials, but the talks failed to produce an acceptable plan.
The Democratic-backed bill was approved by the House Intelligence Committee on a straight party-line vote May 3.
Rep. William Broomfield, R.Mich., senior Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee, he said realized that the Democrats had enough votes to approve the bill in committee, but "when the matter gets before the full House, it will probably get a different vote."
The strict cutoff plan also faces problems in the Republican-controlled Senate, where the Senate Intelligence Committee voted May 6 to allow covert aid to continue until Sept. 30 and to continue aid beyond Sept. 30 if President Reagan submitted a new report outlining the need for such operations.
Critics of the administration say that Reagan is violating the law passed late last year that prohibited aid to groups seeking to overthrow the Marxist revolution or to provoke a conflict between Nicaragua and neighboring Honduras.
REAGAN REPEATEDLY has said that the covert U.S. aid is intended only to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua to anti-government guerrillas in El Salvador.
The new bill would end covert aid for any purpose and instead would openly admit that it had done so.
ments in Central America for use in stopping the flow of arms to insurgent groups.
Administration officials had been negotiating with committee Democrats for the past two weeks in an effort to agree on an alternative plan that would allow some covert aid to continue, but that effort failed.
The committee met in closed session" for most of the afternoon and then opened the proceedings to the public to vote on amendments to the bill.
The public debate was marked by bitter partisan conflicts, with Rep. Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., saying the committee was "selling this country down the drain and aiding and abetting the spread of communism."
REP. HENRYHYDE, R-III, said the committee was going to 'make it safe' to be a communist guerrilla, but we're going to make it死... to be fighting for freedom in the hills of Nicaragua."
Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., who had been the Democrats' chief spokesman in the unsuccessful negotiations with the administration, said U.S. covet aid to the Nicaraguan rebels violated the charter of the Organization of American States, which than good for the U.S. cause. "It holds the United States up to ridicule."